Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Tompkins <st265089-AT-oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: Interpretation vs. Life


A nietzschean response to traces of ressentiment in a poet's 
contribution; I think it would be 'fair enough' to cite Nietzsche in 
response to KRYMKT34's (no signature) abjection:

Section 928 of The Will To Power - "Should One follow one's feelings?"
...yielding to a generous feeling and under the impulse of the 
moment...is of little value and does not even characterize one...a higher 
stage is: to overcome even this pressure within us and to perform an 
heroic act, not on impulse - but coldly, 'raisonnable' without being 
overwhelmed by stormy feelings of pleasure...Blind indulgence of an 
affect, totally regardless of whether it be a generous and compassionate 
or a hostile affect, is the cause of the greatest evils.

Perhaps I am misreading you when you say that the scholars on this list 
suck, but then again if you wish to stir up the Nietzschean ghosts of 
war..."In times of painful tension and vulnerability, choose war: it 
hardens, produces muscles."!!!!!!!!!!!! (1040 WTP)

For those who are annoyed by the poet:  What are my parasites to me?

For the poet: "Oh this insane pathetic beast-man! What ideas he has, what 
paroxysms of nonsense, what bestiality of thought erupts as soon as he is 
prevented just a little from being a beast indeed!"  Genealogy of Morals

Stephen J. Tompkins
Ohio University


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